The Perfect Setup - CentOS 4.3 (64-bit) Questions

I have tried to set up a server here at home just for testing it out.
It will serve as my private test/web/file/mp3 server (I hope).
Maybe set it up later so that a friend can access it from the outside.

I followed The Perfect Setup - CentOS 4.3 (64-bit) (server-cd) tutorial (Great work!!!!)
Didn't find any Centos 4.3 64-bits server-cd ISO's
and no tutorial for v4.4 64-bit, but I guess this close-enough-mix will do.

But right now I feel like a stupid nobody that doesn't even know what to do with his toy.
Command line shell is just a little bit harder to get used to than I thought. But I will not give up.

I will take my experience from the start.. Maybe to detailed, but anyhow..
If You care to spend a few minutes I really will thank You!

Almost everything worked fine.
I have been able to figure out some trouble myselves,
but all my other friends are WinOnly so I guess I have to use forums on the rest..

(mySQL)

mySQL seemed to install fine.
However when I tried to check that networking was enabled it answered with:

tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 3996/mysql

instead oftcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 2995/mysql

that the tutorial said it would return..
Don't know what the numbers are? port? - but I guess it's ok?

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When I tried to set up a password for the user root it typed exactly this: